Cathal Brugha

Cathal Brugha (18 July 1874-7 July 1922), born Charles Burgess, was President of Ireland from 21 January to 1 April 1919, preceding Eamon de Valera.

Biography
Cathal Brugha was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland on 18 July 1874 to a Protestant Anglo-Irish father and a Catholic Irish mother, and he worked as a traveling salesman, selling church candles. In 1913, he joined the Irish Volunteers, and he served as Eamonn Ceannt's second-in-command during the Easter Rising of 1916. Brugha would organize the Irish republicans into the Irish Republican Army after the rising was crushed, and he became a Sinn Fein MP in 1918. In 1919, he briefly served as President of Ireland at the start of the Irish War of Independence, and he opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty. In 1922, at the start of the Irish Civil War, he commanded anti-treaty IRA troops during the Battle of Dublin, and he died when a bullet severed his artery, mortally wounding him.